Why do you Standardise data?

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1. What is PCA in data mining?
2. What is the purpose of standardizing data?
3. What is the difference between factor analysis and PCA?
4. What is a Biplot in PCA?
5. What is a component in statistics?
6. What does an eigenvalue greater than 1 mean?
7. What is standard scaling?
8. Can PCA be used for supervised learning?
9. What is the difference between PCA and cluster analysis?
10. Is PCA a classifier?

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